Once we have acquired the momentum that permits us to breathe in India's more or less tropical world; once we have
become especially broad and open, so that we do not shrink from even the most monstrous of concepts, letters, and numbers, then the world of Mahayana can be unveiled for us in all its beauty and
sublimity.
Far more than the filmmaker's hectic, ultimately tension - dispersing visual and aural gimmickry, the picture's best special effect remains Franco's performance, which catches the horror and
sublimity of a jock humbled while trapped at the bottom of the earth,
becoming spiritually whole even as he literally loses parts of himself.